Some of the PCDs are wrong,.. help :D

[HoTWire]

I know there are some inaccuracies in the PCD chart,.. particularly VWs ,.. so can anyone help correct this stuff please :

Volkswagen 181 1974 1976 5x120
Volkswagen Beetle (new) 0 0 5x100
Volkswagen Bora 0 0 5x100
Volkswagen Caravelle 0 0 5x112
Volkswagen Corrado 0 0 4x100
Volkswagen Corrado VR6 0 0 5x100
Volkswagen Golf 0 0 4x100
Volkswagen Golf Mk3 Gti 0 0 5x100
Volkswagen Golf Mk3 VR6 0 0 5x100
Volkswagen Golf Mk4 0 0 5x100
Volkswagen Jetta 0 0 4x100
Volkswagen K70 0 0 5x103
Volkswagen Lupo 0 0 4x100
Volkswagen Passat 0 1996 4x100
Volkswagen Passat 1996 0 5x112
Volkswagen Passat VR6 0 0 5x100
Volkswagen Polo 0 0 4x100
Volkswagen Scirocco 0 0 4x100
Volkswagen Sharan 0 0 5x112
Volkswagen Transporter 0 0 5x112
Volkswagen Type1 0 1967 5x205
Volkswagen Type1 1967 0 5x130
Volkswagen Type2 1965 0 5x112
Volkswagen Type2 0 1964 5x205
Volkswagen Type3 0 0 4x130
Volkswagen Type4 0 0 4x130
Volkswagen Vento 0 0 4x100
Volkswagen Vento VR6 0 0 5x100

[rainking]

could be wrong,

but I thought all 5-stud beetles are 5x205 and all 4 stud beetles are 4x130

not sure about the K70? but most of the others read OK to me....

[BenzBoy]

I got caught out by the PCDs on Passats - not from the PCD chart on this site but somewhere else I can't remember... thought they were 5x112 (like the Merc) and ended up being 5x100 . Had the wheels shipped from Scotland too! Doh! Maybe there are variations withing the models on Passats? Not entirely sure....

[rainking]

Passats since 1996 have all been 5x112.... before that, the 'lesser' ones were 4x100 and the VR6 was 5x100....

[BenzBoy]

I'm 99% sure the VW Sharan is 5x112 as it's just a rebadged Galaxy / Alhambra. Transporter is 5x112 too as Guz was fitting some Merc Pentas on his and they are definitely 5x112.

[Pillock]

pre-67 bugs are "wide 5" - 5 x 205
post-67 bugs are 4 x 130
late model type 3's are 4 x 130 too as my fasty wears my old beetle rims.
type 2, early ones (pre 67?) are 5x205 as you can swap early bug wheels onto them, late ones are 5x112 as Carlton/Merc/Volvo wheels fit with a bit of centre hole work.

the Thing (181) seems wrong, i'd have thought it matched late beetle PCD - 4x130

Try www.rochfordtyres.co.uk/fitmentguide.asp to double-check

[hairnet]

www.telusplanet.net/~chichm/tech/wheels.pdf

4 stud things are same as 4 stud 70's beetles

[HoTWire]

Okay I was going through this morning, adding in a couple of new PCDs and fixing up the VW ones,.. and I've noticed something.

I've not got many actually old cars. I remember thinking this at the time, I though I'd get all the modern wheels on and then fill in the retro gaps. However its not worked out like that.

Soooo... I'm currently working on a solution. I can add in a Make and Vehicle without having the PCD. So I can start off by going through my big book of 70's cars and add in all the cars from that. I'm going to need some help tracking down the PCDs though ,.. anyone up for it?

[Pillock]

all i've got as reference material is google but it's the kind of thing that suits me, a bit of internet detectiving

[BenzBoy]

I reckon we couild cover a lot of retro cars by asking fellow forummers what their cars PCD is - It won't be comprehensive but it'd be a start wouldn't it?
Mine's easy: All Mercedes new and old are 5x112 (except maybe the A Class and the Danny de Vito van thingies...)

[rainking]

BenzBoy said:

I reckon we couild cover a lot of retro cars by asking fellow forummers what their cars PCD is - It won't be comprehensive but it'd be a start wouldn't it?
Mine's easy: All Mercedes new and old are 5x112 (except maybe the A Class and the Danny de Vito van thingies...)

I thought the Vito is/was 5*112

Um, my cars....

Skoda Fabia (not retro) 5*100
Discovery.... 5*

Abi's Cars:
(the samba isn't proper, as it should have 5*205 but is 5*112)


1991 Corrado 16v 4*100
1991 Polo GT Coupe 4*100
1987 T3 Caravelle 5*112
1969 VW Buggy 4*130
1972 Beetle 4*130

[wagoneer]

You can see it now, there we are in a car park. 'Oi! what you doin' wiv my car mate?'. How well would the answer of 'just measuring your PCD' go down?

I think a bit of measuring next time I'm at the breakers could be useful. There's loads there and all the wheels have been removed making it rather easy.

Planning on a trip in the next week or two for some Volvo bits.

[jizzy gillespie]

my sigma s 4x112 and shes a 78 model

[rmad]

mrsigma said:

my sigma s 4x112 and shes a 78 model

Surely it's 4x114.3 (4.5")?



Sorry, Hotwire - you know I can do most of these from memory...there's just so many.

All Air-cooled VWs are 5x205mm when 5 stud or 4x130mm as 4...with the exception of the transporter range as below. ('67 is the change-over point for Beetles - in the UK the 1200 was 5 stud and the 1500 was 4 stud, I think all US Bugs were 4 stud in '67 though)
Volkswagen Caravelle/transporters are 5x112 (bay window*/wedge/T4 all 5x112..not sure about later ones[post 95ish]) Some early bay-windows (67-70?) has 5x205)

I'd be quite confident in saying all FWD VWs with 4 studs are 100mm.

I'm not sure about the VR6 cars though.

[rmad]

rainking said:

I thought the Vito is/was 5*112

All Mercedes to my knowledge are 5x112...except for one exception - the Sprinter van which is 5x130...an anomaly which caught my eye a while ago, because it suggests you couls fit Porsche wheels! Scrapingscrap recently added more fuel to this theory with his snaps from Australia which included a Sprinter on Porsche Cup 17inchers!

[HoTWire]

rmad said:

All Mercedes to my knowledge are 5x112...except for one exception - the Sprinter van which is 5x130...an anomaly which caught my eye a while ago, because it suggests you couls fit Porsche wheels! Scrapingscrap recently added more fuel to this theory with his snaps from Australia which included a Sprinter on Porsche Cup 17inchers!

2000th Rmad post

My fave discover was that you could stick Porschewheels on a VW Touareg ,..

[Adam]

Yes, because they are very similar to the Porsche Cayenne.

Adam

[Adam]

+ the Rover metro has a PCD of 95mm.

Adam